Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-08-11
OUR FISH AND GAME.
TWO ALMOST INEXHAUSTIBLE
SOURCES OF WEALTH.

lucy Will DTluS AuOuSanOS OF wealthy
Persons Here who Will Invest In
Our Lands and Mines-An Inpour-
Ing Of Eastern Capital Coming.
ayes, sir" said James B. Cooper to
the TIMES reporter, yesterday, ",he
West is being closely examined for
investments. Thousands of heavy
Eastern capitalists are awakening to
the fact that they can do much better
with their money in the West than in
the East. The difference is almost
beyond expression. In money-lend-
ing, for instance. In the East money
is a drug at 4 per cent. Here it
brings Is to 80 per cent, This in
legitimate business. In speculations,
in land, cattle and mines th<profits,
with ordinarily prudent management,
are still greater. These Eastern men
start out to see the West-to Kansas.
perhaps, or Colorado. There they
have stopped, heretofore; but they
are beginning to cross the Rockies,
and once they get we'll started they
will come in crowds. BY this time
next year this whole interior basin
will feel tho effects of this outpour.
ing, which will grow steadily. This
movement of the wealthy people will
make big city of Denver; it will
treble or quadruple the population OF
Salt Lake City. l think If a person
wanted to buy real estate for rise,
he could not miss it anywhere in Salt
Lake City. All the railroads now
at Denver are coming to Salt Lake.
"When these people get to Salt
Lake they will of course wish to see
the surrounding or tributary country.
Then you will have a golden oppor.
tunity. If you advertise yourselves
properly, they will come and visit
you; and If they come your unex-
celled climate, magnificent minerals,
and unequaled opportunities for max.
ing money, will do the rest.
"Your trout streams and inexhaus.
t'ble game will not prove your least
attraction. Why, sir, do you know
that trout fishing is rapidly becoming
an unknown art in the United States
That the trout streams are practically
l oil fishee dry-exhausted? lam a vel, ,
enthusiastic sportsman, myself, and
, have 6shed in almost every river
creek and brook in Michigan within
} 40 miles of the railroads, and could
, not catch a trout over four inches
long. have done the same in Cali
} fornia-waded all day in clear water,
without getting anything longer than
my index finger. In Colorado, the
streams outside of the Middle and
North Park are exhausted. In the
South Park if in one days hard fish.
ing you catch string of trout suffi
oient for meal for two men, you've
done a mighty good days work
Practically, there is no such thing AZ
trout fishing, any more, in the United
States, outside of Idaho. You've 90,
the best trout and grouse country il
the world that l know of; and l an
= about as familiar with the subject
B. in the American part of the world, a
= least, as any one can be, as I've fshet
in almost every trout stream in thi
y Western country.
e "Thls, then, will bring to you genu
r inc sportsmen--not pot-hunters, bu
e men who travel thousands of miles il
s palace cars, in private coaches, or OF
. horseback, to get to good 6shin,
grounds, and who only want a fey
good messes when they get there
These men have means, have idl
capital which they willingly inves
/, when they see chance to max
3, money; aud they therefore will b
s. just the class that you need. An
their numbers will increase, as lon
!. as your streams are clear. That 20
t must look out for. Keep the minin
debris and the sawdust-especiall
d the sawdust--out of your streams, an
'e you will have good trout-ishng q
long as time and civilization last"